Her love was poison; her embrace death.
This tale has held a place in literature because it stands for men of evil all compact, whose presence has consumed integrities and exhaled iniquities.

Happily the forces that bless are always more numerous and more potent than those that blight.

Cast a bushel of chaff and one grain of wheat into the soil and nature will destroy all the chaff but cause the one grain of wheat to usher in rich harvests.
As a force-producer, man's primary influence is voluntary in nature.
This is the capacity of purposely bringing all the soul's powers to bear upon society.

It is the foundation of all instruction.

The parent influences the child this way or that.