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

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

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

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.