When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

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

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.