And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.