It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

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

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

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

These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?