Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards is the fire. That’s of the four suits. But the Greater Trumps, it’s said, are the meaning of all process and the measure of the everlasting dance.