It does not provide for repentance, for restitution, for recovering a lost paradise.
It makes an act final, a sin irrevocable." "Well, since we are beginning to talk like a couple of books by a pair of priggish philosophers, I might as well say that I think sin is final so far as the domestic and social machinery of the world is concerned.
What his religious belief requires of a man is one thing, what his fellow-men require of him is another.

The world says, You shall have latitude enough to swing in freely, but you must keep within the code.
As soon as you break the law openly, and set the machinery of public penalty in motion, there is an end of you, so far as this world is concerned.

You may live on, but you have been broken on the wheel, and broken you always will be.

It is not a question of right or wrong, of kindness or cruelty, but of general expediency and inevitableness.

To all effect, Mr.Anson was dead before he breathed his last.