Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.