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- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper. — Hannah More
- Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. — Hannah More
- Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. — Hannah More