There is nothing so costly as bargains.

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

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

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