To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is "misunderstood" or that he is "different;" none of this is necessarily complimentary, but it will flatter him infinitely more than merely telling him that he is brilliant, or noble, or wise, or good.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

Honeymoons are the beginning of wisdom--but the beginning of wisdom is the end of romance.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.