The Test Of A Vocation Is The

The World Is Not Unkind, And Reprobates Are Worse Than Their Reputations.

It's An Odd Thing About This Universe That, Though We All Disagree With Each Other, We Are All Of Us Always In The Right.

What Pursuit Is More Elegant Than That Of Collecting The Ignominies Of Our Nature And Transfixing Them For Show, Each On The Bright Pin Of A Polished Phrase?

Our Names Are Labels, Plainly Printed On The Bottled Essence Of Our Past Behavior.

All Our Lives We Are Putting Pennies — Our Most Golden Pennies — Into Penny-in-the-slot Machines That Are Almost Always Empty.