To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.