Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.