I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.