The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment. - Jean Paul

She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.