–love rules the world and without it there can never be a thrill of joy that amounts to much.

–you cannot love him, and you simply proclaim to the world that you have sold your personal charms.

whether sister, mother, stranger, or wife.  Your wife may not object, although she would be very glad to have you throw your cigar forever away.  Her love for you causes her to endure it silently, and your coarseness causes you to continue it.

The author consulted fifty wives whose husbands smoke, and forty-six said they would give anything to have their husbands throw away their cigars.  The other four were not particular about it.  The experience of libertines is that a woman who enjoys the stench of a cigar is not noted for virtue.

and as bewitchingly as you did when he was courting you, and he always will be in love with you.

–it forebodes a storm, and dampens the ardor of love’s young dream.

–incapable of hate, envy, love,  good or evil–a neutralized nothing.

–you cannot love him.