He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.