It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes

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

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.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

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