We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

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

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.

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

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.