Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.