A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Now we were descending just as steeply.