Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.