It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.