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

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.

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

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

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

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.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.