Reason also is choice.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.