A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.