I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

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.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.

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 horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

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.