Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Everything disturbs an absent lover.

I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Dine on little, and sup on less.