Consequences are unpitying.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.