Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.