What generous, ardent, imaginative soul has not a secret pleasure-place in which it disports?
Let no clumsy prying or dull meddling of ours try to disturb it in our children.

Actaeon was a brute for wanting to push in where Diana was bathing.

Leave him occasionally alone, my good madam, if you have a poet for a child.

Even your admirable advice may be a bore sometimes.

You are faultless; but it does not follow that everybody in your family is to think exactly like yourself.