So great was the noise during the day that I used to lie awake at night listening to silence.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.