You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
After all, the true seeing is within.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.