Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.