But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.