“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of t...” — Catherine Helen Spence Quote

“I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.”

“Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.”

“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.”

“I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.”

“People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.”

“I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.”