We do not search the depths." "If I could oblige Madam by abolishing society and home and humanity, I should be very glad--because, of course, that is what Madam means!" "At any cost," she mused, "that torture of life must be passed on to coming generations for their unhappiness, their grief, their misery.

I presume it was necessary that there should be this plan of the general blindness and intensity of passion." "Yes, if, indeed, it be not the most important thing in the world for us to marry, at least it is important that we should think so.

Madam is philosopher this morning," I said, smiling.
She hardly heard me.

"To continue the crucifixion of the soul, to continue the misapprehensions, the debasings of contact with human life--yes, I suppose one must pay all that for the sake of the gaining of a purpose.

Yet there are those who would endure much for the sake of principle, Monsieur.