For you had never sinned as I had, and you were so different from me.

You are the only sinless man I know, and you have made me know what beasts we men are.

Why can't we be what we might be ?" Valentine did not reply.

He seemed lost in thought, and Julian continued, throwing off his original shamefacedness: "Ever since then you've kept me straight.

If I feel inclined to throw myself down in the gutter, one look at you makes me loathe the notion.
Preaching often drives one wrong out of sheer 'cussedness,' I suppose.
But you don't preach and don't care.