He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
This innocence begins to weigh me down.
She wavers, she hesitates; in one word — she is a woman.
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.