Human experience is usually paradoxical.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.