For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

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

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.