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

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

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.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.