Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment.