Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?