To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar health is invariably fascinating. Next to love, it is the one thing which solaces and deli… - Theodore Dreiser

A clever companion — had she ever had one — would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse

the practice of medicine in a large and kindly way had led him to the conclusion that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophies and in our small neighborhood relationships.