“There's a point where plainness is no longer a virtue, when it becomes excessively bald, wrenched.”

“When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?”

“…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”

“Virtue is like a rich stone — best plain set.”

“We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.”

“The point is plain as a pike-staff.”

“I could see that now — how the universe swirled around this one point. I'd never seen the symmetry of the universe before, but now it was plain.
The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.
It was the baby girl in the blonde vampire's arms that held me here now.
Renesmee.”

“It is important to call on God to intervene in our life, especially when we reach the point where we ourselves have become helpless.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled…It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”