“This was too absurd, and at the same time dismayingly tempting.”
“She was like a nagging itch, repellent and at the same time tempting.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
“It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him --""Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.”
“This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.”