We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.