Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.