In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

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

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

At twenty, a man feels awfully aged and blasé; at thirty, almost senile; at forty, "not so old"; and at fifty, positively skittish.