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.

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.

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

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

Every 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.

I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.