Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people.
And like bright metal on a sullen ground, my reformation, glittering o’er my fault, shall show more goodly and attract more eyes than that which hath no foil to set it off.
And it is not always through valor and chastity that men are valiant and women chaste.[Et ce n’est pas toujours par valeur et par chasteté que les hommes sont vaillants, et que les femmes sont chastes.]
A virtuous woman has in her heart one fibre less or one fibre more than other women; she is either stupid or sublime.[Une femme vertueuse a dans le cœur une fibre de moins ou de plus que les autres femmes: elle est stupide ou sublime.]
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.[to Escalus]
