“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

“He looked at her hopelessly. Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”

“It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them. ”

“It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be”

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”

“[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.”

“There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.”