Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.
You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?