You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.