Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.