“Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.”

“There is far too much croaking among young men.”

“In the Age of Perfect Virtue, men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between "superior" and "inferior" to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in a state of pure simplicity.”

“But while Israel as a nation is and remains God's portion from among the nations of the earth, the Church of Christ, made up of individuals out of all nations, is His special inheritance from among men.”

“When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have the same tastes in clothing, flatter a woman with the same metaphor) and a tedious monotony among events (they are all just an endless repetition of the same one); but in her adolescence she welcomes these coincidences as miraculous and she is avid to decipher their meanings.”

“Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.”