“There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”

“A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.”

“A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to be with; but one cannot comprehend a young man's being under such restraint, as not to be able to spend a week with his father, if he likes it.”

“A man can fantasize about other women and thinks they are in love with only one person.WhilstA woman cannot. They consider it as cheating.”

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.”