There are six requisites in every happy marriage. The first is Faith and the remaining five are Confidence. The real problem of life is how to live rightly in the world, not how to get away from it. Innocence is not ignorance, innocence is knowledge and self-control. Urge your own spontaneous thought against all prudential considerations, and the world will believe in you, or hate you - the difference is small.
Poetry is the bill and coo of sex.
The refluxes of the heart are as sure and certain as the march of the planets. The American girl who marries a Foreign Duke takes on the management of a jacaseria as a life-job. Would you have your name smell sweet with the myrrh of remembrance and chime melodiously in the ear of future days, then cultivate faith, not doubt, and give every man credit for the good he does, never seeking to attribute base motives to beautiful acts. One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. Only by giving out our joy do we make it our own - by sharing, we double it.