If you are a man, try the plan upon the next woman whom you seek to win.

If she happens to be one who has full confidence in her charms, you will be surprised at the result.

Women lacking that confidence are restrained by fear and doubt.
But in no case have I much faith in the hammer-and-tongs process at the opening of a campaign.

Later on, of course--but you doubtless are quite as well informed concerning this important subject as I.There is, however, so much blundering in that branch of science that I have a mind to endow a college at Oxford or at Paris in which shall be taught the gentle, universally needed art of making love.

What a noble attendance such a college would draw.