The Way of All Flesh

by Samuel Butler

Well-to-do parents seldom eat many sour grapes; the danger to the children lies in the parents eating too many sweet ones.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence."

The greater part of every family is always odious; if there are one or two good ones in a very large family, it is as much as can be expected."