In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.