When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.