Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.