But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as one's knowledge of her is concerned: the broomstick is there and the sun is there; and whether the child is beaten by it or warmed and enlightened by it, it accepts it as a fact in nature, and does not conceive it as having had youth, passions, and weaknesses, or as still growing, yearning, suffering, and learning.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The harder I work the more I live.