It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were m… - William Somerset Maugham

Let me be frank just this once, father. I've been foolish and wicked and hateful. I've been terribly punished. I'm determined to save my daughter from all that. I want her to be fearless and frank. I want her to be a person, independent of others because she is possessed of herself, and I want her to take life like a free man and make a better job of it than I have.

She loved three things — a joke, a
glass of wine, and a handsome man.

I don’t know what it is that makes someone love you, but whatever it is, it’s the only thing that matters, and if it is not there you won’t create it by kindness, or generosity, or anything of that sort.