I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

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

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.

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

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

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

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.