Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.