Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.