Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.