It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.
After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.
Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.