“The more a man judges, the less he loves”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.”

“for a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea”

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”

“I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.”

“A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life”