Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.