“Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection.”
“All sins are attempts to fill voids.”
“Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.”
“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. ”
“An attempt to be perfect was itself an imperfection”
“Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?”