The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.
You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to