People do not go into the company of their fellow-creatures for what would seem a very sufficient reason, namely, that they have something to say to them, or something that they want to hear from them; but in the vague hope that they may find something to say.
PurposeCommunicationConversationSocial interactionSocializing
Sometimes spontaneous conversation is valuable even without a clear goal.
Women are never supposed to have any occupation of sufficient importance not to be interrupted, except 'suckling their fools '; and women themselves have accep…
Society triumphs over many. They wish to regenerate the world with their institutions, with their moral philosophy, with their love. Then they sink to living f…
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived. The stimulus, the …
'Run away with me,' said Roseman when the coffee came. 'Where?' she asked. That shut him up.
Men and women meet now to be idle. Is it extraordinary that they do not know each other, and that, in their mutual ignorance, they form no surer friendships? D…
Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.