The doing evil to avoid an evil Cannot be good. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars.

Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.