“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.”

“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”

“As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.”

“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”