Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
A lion may die of an ass's kick.
Smiling the boy fell dead.
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.