The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, "hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
Kings can only use their best tools.
The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious ci...
People will do the basest things on account of their so-called honor.
