Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.