You are ashamed to lift up your eyes to meet other men's eyes.

You dare not take their honest hands.

You could tell Edwards himself things about humiliation now that would make his terribly searching and humbling book quite tame and tasteless.
Come, then, O high-minded man, be sane, be wise.

If you were up on a giddy height, and began to see that certain death was straight and soon before you, what would you do?
You know what you would do.

You would look with all your eyes for such steps as would take you safest down to the solid ground.