“A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.”

“Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.”

“a wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”

“Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.”

“And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.”

“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.”

“The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those he didn't commit when he had the opportunity".”