Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.