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.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

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

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

We are always children to our mothers.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.