So, he was gay.

He closed, as it were, a black volume, and opened a new and a bright one.

Young men easily fancy that they may do this, and that when the black volume is shut the tide is stopped.

Saying, "I was a fool," they believe they have put an end to the foolishness.

What father teaches them that a human act once set in motion flows on for ever to the great account?
Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.