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

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

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.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.