Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.