Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.