In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable.
True law is right reason in agreement with nature;. . . it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. . . It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.