Too often goodness is but the lack of courage to do wrong or the absence of temptation.

If a man has no qualities save goodness to recommend him, I fear he might go his whole life through not knowing a woman's real love.

We are apt to turn from the nauseating innocuousness of the truly good and to thank God for a modicum of interesting sin." "I'm sorry to hear this philosophy from you, cousin, for it smacks of bitterness, and I regret to learn that you have not thrown off your love for Hamilton, though I have long suspected the truth." "Yes, yes, Ned, the truth, the truth! I, too, am sorry.

But it can't be helped, and I want to tell you all about it," she said, clasping my arm.

"I--I am almost mad about him! The king and the courtiers are harmless.