astray quotes

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortunemay naturally indulgeina few delinquencies.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Scenes of Clerical Life, ch.25.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Gentlemen-Rankers'.