Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.