What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.