“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
