Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.