The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.