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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

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

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.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.