Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.