It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.