To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.