A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.