It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.