One Never Feels Such Distaste For One's

Women Have One Great Advantage Over Men. It Is Commonly Thought That If They Marry They Have Done Enough, And Need Career No Further. If A Man Marries, On The Other Hand, Public Opinion Is All Against Him If He Takes This View.

One Never Feels Such Distaste For One's Countrymen And Countrywomen As When One Meets Them Abroad.

Every Year, In The Deep Midwinter, There Descends Upon This World A Terrible Fortnight. ... Every Shop Is A Choked Mass Of Humanity ... Nerves Are Jangled And Frayed, Purses Emptied To No Purposes, All Amusements And All Occupations Suspended In Favor Of Frightful Businesses With Brown Paper, String, Letters, Cards, Stamps, And Crammed Post Offices. This Period Is Doubtless A Foretaste Of Whatever Purgatory Lies In Store For Human Creatures.

Churches Are Wonderful And Beautiful, And They Are Vehicles For Religion, But No Church Can Have More Than A Very Little Of The Truth.

Once You Get To Know Your Neighbors, You Are No Longer Free, You Are All Tangled Up, You Have To Stop And Speak When You Are Out And You Never Feel Safe When You Are In.