A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.