If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

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.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.