One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she was a perfectly rational being?
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.