You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.
All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.
A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.