After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.
Children are certainly too good to be true.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.