Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.