“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams
“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar
“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.