If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.