Reality in strong doses frightens.
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.
Monastic incarceration is castration.