You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.