Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.

I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.