High character is more to be accounted of than long life.

And it is to you, as a woman, that the guarding of the higher springs of his nature is especially entrusted.

My whole experience has gone to teach me, with ever-increasing force, that the proposition that purity is vitally necessary for the woman, but of comparatively small account for the man, is absolutely false.

Granted that, owing to social ostracism, the outward degradation of impurity to the woman is far greater, I contend that a deeper inner debasement is its sure fruition in the man.

Cruelty and lies are its certain accompaniment.