It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

We are always children to our mothers.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.