A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

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