Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.