lapse quotes

   Excellentioris person× semper casus in vitium, minoris lapsum, comparatione scandali multe longius antecedit. The scandal of an exalted person's fall into vice, when compared to the lapse of one lesser, always far exceeds it.

- Malcolm   d.1093 Canmore
c.1057  Quoted in  John Fordun's Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.4.

The longest day must have its close,the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to aneternal night, andthenightofthejusttoaneternalday.

- Harriet (Elizabeth) ne  e Beecher Stowe
  UncleTom's Cabin, ch.40.