§ 27.
All women, soon or late, are jealous of their daughters; all men, soon or late, are envious of their sons.
§ 28.
History seems to bear very harshly upon women. One cannot recall more than three famous women who were virtuous. But on turning to famous men the seeming injustice disappears. One would have difficulty finding even two of them who were virtuous.
§ 29.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
§ 30.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him in a very handy form.
§ 31.
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.