“Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.”
“A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.”
“The law as it is considered as a rule can be no more abolished or changed than the nature of good and evil can be abolished or changed.”
“...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.”
“Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.”
“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.”