Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be.

I do not like Melbourne in its present state.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

We have this morning dropped anchor, just off Williamstown.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

All the social ills thatlaw presumes to correct exist because people are not free tolearn and grow.

Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

We worship money instead of honour.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.