...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite.

I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.