Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament
men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.
... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.