Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings. - Oscar Wilde

For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.