To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.