The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

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

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

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