October 24, 2010

Men never do evil so completely or cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal

October 01, 2010

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me. ~ Charles Dickens (from "Great Expectations")