Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.