No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.