The girl’s life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman’s original nature left in her still; and...

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn’t share her body with any of them.