Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.