Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.