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.

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

Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Love will never be ideal until man recovers from the illusion that he can be just a little bit faithful or a little bit married.