If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

The sky is darkening like a stain Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.