How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing women care about and there's no woman so proud that she doesn't rejoice at heart in her conquests.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living!

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. Do you think a Greek name gives more weight to your reasons?

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.