“My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.”
“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)”
“God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.”
“For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.”
“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go.”
“what? shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?”