Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.