If women thought less of their own souls and more about men's tempers, marriage wouldn't he what it is. - John Oliver Hobbes

Reader. But where are the Unities?
Author. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

He longed to make a mark, or, to express it more vulgarly, cut a figure. Now, fortunately or unfortunately, the number of figures which can be cut in the world is practically unlimited; the only difficulty is to cut precisely the kind of figure one would wish.

Ah, it is silliness to pass a wolf because one is hunting foxes.