When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.