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.
Miles FranklinAh, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Miles FranklinEvery now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.
Miles FranklinWhat I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.
Miles Franklin