Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.