[…] you must follow the impulse of your own inspiration. If THAT commands the slaying of the victim, no bystander has a right to put out his hand to stay the sacrificial knife: but I hold you a stern priestess in these matters.

it is not possible for man to sever the wheat from the tares, the good fish from the other frie; that must be the Angels Ministery at the end of mortall things.

men become senseless of the evils of mankind , inapprehensive of the troubles of their brethren

That ne'er quails me, at which your greatest quake; Which the time then did utterly distaste