My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.