If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
I was too young to know how to love her.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.