Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.