It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

The moment you're born you're done for.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.