My dear, a man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife or his friends—he has to devote himself wholly to his enemies! - John Oliver Hobbes

... there was never a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Dearest, every man—even the most cynical—has one enthusiasm—he is earnest about some one thing; the all-round trifler does not exist. If there is a skeleton—there is also an idol in the cupboard!

Disappointments—like fate and love—will not bear to be too much talked about.