Easy reading requires hard writing.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.