If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.

For a time Emerson politely endeavored to conceal his boredom - like most men, he is profoundly disinterested in all children except his own - ...

Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?

Would I ever find forever love? Do I really want to, when forever was a word without meaning?

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.