While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.