“I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too. And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man's life springs from his woman's bones, and in her blood is his honor christened. For the sake of love alone, I would walk through fire again.”

“For the error bred in the bone of each woman and each man craves what it cannot have, not universal love but to be loved alone.”

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

“When a woman submits to a man, it's the most precious gift she can give. Herself. Unreservedly. The man has to respect and honor that gift above all else. Even if he respects nothing else in the world, he must respect the woman in his care. It's his sworn duty to protect, honor and cherish his submissive. To take care of her and provide a safe haven. Someone who would put his own needs above his woman's is no man.”

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”

“A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.”