What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws but a reformed society an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time after university a woman was expected to become a teacher a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life things won't be too bad.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach who walk their talk.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.