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.

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

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young novelist should ever dare to imitate the style of Dickens.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.