On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.