~Verso, what is evil if no more than weakness married with arrogance, credulity with error? Is goodness done accidentally in truth a good; and is, then, evil committed without determination yet evil?~

~A nice jumble of words seeking meaning for themselves.~

~I wondered then, as I do now, who precisely discharged the work of Satan that day: those who were hanged, or those who did the hanging?~

~If you are a fisherman, Lent is better than Christmas.~

~Yet, the matter of the Leystoff women stood thus precedented, however poorly composed the account in that newsbook had been - or my memory thereof - and no matter what literary flourishes the author might have employed in embellishing his work: for do not the most compelling lies revolve upon a numb of truth?~