People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.