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

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

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.

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 good book is an event in my life.