C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Théophile Gautier
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.