The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.