I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

we middle-aged folk have the education of life, truly; we know the multiplication table of anxieties and sorrows, the subtraction table of loss, the division table of responsibility.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul in a very little sin.