Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.

Society is no more indulgent than was the God of Genesis.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.