The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.