Helen

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

And this is a grief beyond the reality, if a man incurs blame for sins that are not his.

It is right for women to stand by a woman's cause.