With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.