If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.