Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

Those who prepare for war get it.

If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.