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

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

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

People love to talk but hate to listen.

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

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.