My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
The Russian people, sober, are said to be a gentle people.
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
I am really puzzled to understand myself.
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.