Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.