The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
He who is penitent is almost innocent.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?