Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.
Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.