"I have felt it from my boyhood, but never could state the verbal antithesis.

The common criminal is a bad man, but at least he is, as it were, a conditional good man.

He says that if only a certain obstacle be removed--say a wealthy uncle--he is then prepared to accept the universe and to praise God.

He is a reformer, but not an anarchist.

He wishes to cleanse the edifice, but not to destroy it.