Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.