Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.