The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!