. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.