As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.