There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

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.