A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belon...gs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored!... And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Near by is an interesting ruin--the meagre remains of an ancient heathen temple--a place where human sacrifices were offered up in... those old bygone days when the simple child of nature, yielding momentarily to sin when sorely tempted, acknowledged his error when calm reflection had shown it to him, and came forward with noble frankness and offered up his grandmother as an atoning sacrifice--in those old days when the luckless sinner could keep on cleansing his conscience and achieving periodical happiness as long as his relations held out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...the hard work and poverty of my childhood ... turned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too ha...rd after that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »