Who said “No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether…”?

“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”

“Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.”

“I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”

“It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.”

“I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.”

“One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up.”

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”

“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”