But it was better to be so judged than to run the risk of growing after the pattern of her judges.

I suspect the man who leads a dissolute, and the man who leads a commonly selfish life, will land from the great jump pretty nearly in the same spot.

What if those who have despised each the other's sins, are set down to stare at them together, until each finds his own iniquity to be hateful.
Of the latter, the respectably selfish class, was Borland her brother.

He knew his presence a protection to his sister, yet gave himself no trouble to look after her.

As the apple of his eye would he cherish the fluid in which he hoped to discover some secret process of nature; but he was not his sister's keeper, and a drop of mud more or less cast into her spirit was to him of no consequence.