Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

There are words which cut like steel.