"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."