If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.