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.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?