England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.