“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”

“Why is the measure of love… loss? pg.9”

“The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who could drive him crazy enough to be fit to be put into an asylum.”

“Polygamy is so beautiful for men. But a woman marrying two husbands that could end up as a BREAKING NEWS.”

“Not beauty, wealth, or lineage e'er could raise
A woman's name (he said) to height of praise,
If not in action chaste.”

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”

“A woman being never at a loss… the devil always sticks by them.”

“A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”

“Love makes a woman beautiful –
but beauty does not have such power, beauty cannot make a woman worthy of love.”

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”