“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.”
“Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love ”
“O tell her, life is brief but love is long. ”
“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”
“O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, -- the first fluttering of its silken wings. ”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ”