Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected. People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. |