She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.