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

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

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

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

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.