Poor Dory, indeed--but let only those who have not loved too well to love wisely strut at his expense by pitying him; for, in matters of the heart, sophisticated and unsophisticated act much alike.

"Men would dare much more, if they knew what women think," says George Sand.

It is also true that the men who dare most, who win most, are those who do not stop to bother about what the women think.

Thought does not yet govern the world, but appetite and action--bold appetite and the courage of it..