What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

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.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

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