The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.