I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.