There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.
Oaths are the counterfeit money with which we pay the sacrifice of love.
Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.
Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.