Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.