Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.
Since there my past life lies, why alter it?