Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

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.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

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.

Nature is perfectly impartial. Brain has no sex!