There is nothing so costly as bargains.

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

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

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

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

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.

All perfection is melancholy.