Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

“Nothing supplies the place of this instinct. All the nuns in the world are not …”

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. …”

“What precipices are sloth and pleasure! To do nothing is a sorry resolve to tak…”

“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that…”