I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.