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

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

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.

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

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.