There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.