Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.