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

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

We are always children to our mothers.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.