But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.