If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.