1. A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
2. A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
3. A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
4. Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
5. Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
6. All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
7. All the learning my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
8. An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
9. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
10. And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.