I have ever warned you against it, as I myself have prayed to be kept from its devices--alas! how futilely at times.

Vanity leads to imposture, and imposture to the wronging of others.

But if a man repent, and yield all he has, to pay the high price of his bitter mistake, he may thereby redeem himself even in this world.

If he give his life repenting, and if the giving stays the evil he might have wrought, shall we be less merciful than God?
"My children" (he did not mention Valmond's name), "his last act was manly; his death was pious; his sin was forgiven.

Those rifle bullets that brought him down let out all the evil in his blood.
"We, my people, have been delivered from a grave error.