Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason. Ho, my beauties!

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.