Man soon tires of mere beauty. In fact, man, the inconstant creature,
soon tires of mere anything.

* * *

Beauty should never be analyzed. At sight of graceful neck, who speaks
of "musculus sterno-cleido-mastoideus"; at touch of moist red lips, who
thinks upon the corpuscles of Paccini?

* * *

More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.

* * *

Could women only know it, nothing can add to their charms: how
provokingly delightful is the uniformed demureness of an hospital nurse
beside the elaborate bedizenments of a woman of fashion!

* * *

The most beautiful thing known among men is: a good woman. And this is
not an anomaly.

* * *

She who captures a man by a single charm, be it even beauty, holds him by
a weak chain.

Think not it was merely beauty that made Helen or Cleopatra historic.