Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

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