“Cupid is a knavish lad,Thus to make poor mortals mad!”
“Don't play with mortals, Cupid. They carry all sorts of diseases.”
“Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.”
“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.”
“The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.”
“We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.”