“Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.”
“After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.”
“There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”
“For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.”
“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
“We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.”