“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.”
“How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.”
“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.”
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.”
“Why must there always be a price to pay for every indulgence, and why must it so often be withdrawn from the bankrupt accounts of the innocent?”
“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.”