“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”

“You are so beautiful in that little black dress.""Every girl should own a little black dress""Every boy should see his girl in one.”

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”

“That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.”

“Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.]”

“In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.”