They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.