Tenderness is a virtue.

Tenderness is a virtue.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its read more

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as read more

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.