No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
God help us for we knew the worst too young.
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.