Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Like evil, sublimity is also contagious.