The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

It's a wise husband who will buy his wife such fine china that she won't trust him to wash the dishes

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.