Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.