“Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions”

“He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.”

“Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.”

“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you”

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”

“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”

“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”