Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

The only possible society is oneself.

When your mother has grown older, When her dear, faithful eyes No longer see life as they once did, When her feet, grown tired, No longer want to carry her as …

Mother brings a child late to contact by half-an-hour; father then requires an extra half-hour the next week. This is getting silly. If, in fact, the father do…

'I must consider,' said Monica with a smile, 'but one can't do these things offhand--that is worse than doing nothing. I'll tell you what to do NOW. Why not go…