Between heart and heart, there are many channels. But three are in universal use: the eyes, the lips, and the finger-tips. Now the greatest of these is the eyes.
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The masculine heart will never wholly understand the feminine, nor the feminine the masculine. (O the pity o' it!) And yet, after all,
The human heart is much more the same, whether it beats under a cuirass or under a corset.
Between the masculine heart and the feminine, perfect frankness is perhaps of questionable import. But why? It is difficult to say. Perhaps because
The aspirations and desires of the human heart are infinite and unappeasable. To attempt to formulate them is to frustrate them. For
It is as impossible for any two human hearts, as it is impossible for any two material things, to occupy the same space. Especially when we remember that
Between the masculine heart and the feminine is a great gulf fixed. Nay, rather
From youth to age, each human heart seems unwittingly to build about itself a high and ever higher-growing wall, impenetrable, indelapidable, not to be scaled by the look or speech or gesture. Never can heart coalesce with heart. And yet
The absolute and intimate coalescence of heart with heart—is not this, after all, the consummation that every lover seeks? To attempt that consummation by mere speech, it is this that is of questionable import. Since