I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

I work as my father drank.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.