"He and I are good friends, and of course I should hate to see him make a mistake." "But the mistake may be mine; let us say that it is mine." "I had an idea that you didn't make mistakes.

Why should you make the serious mistake of asking a good man to do a bad thing ?" "The natural inference would be that I'm a bad man, wouldn't it ?" "It wouldn't be my way of looking at it.

All you need is courage to be a great man--you can go far!" He smiled grimly.
"I need only one thing, you say;--but what if it's the thing I haven't got ?" "Get it!" she replied lightly.

"But your defiance in the convention wasn't worthy of you; it was only a piece of bravado.

You don't deserve to be abused for that,--just scolded a little.