“God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.”

“A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.”

“[Marriage] made the hard moments easier and the good moments better.”

“Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God”

“Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.”

“Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may”