“My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games …” — Lincoln Steffens

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.