Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.