An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.