What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It seemed ... such nonsense -- inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. To the Lighthouse

“A community begins to fall apart the moment it agrees to abandon the weakest of its members.” Leo Africanus

God is the middle term. Only by loving God above all else can one love the neighbor. Love for the neighbor is therefore the eternal equality in loving. Equality is simply not to make distinctions and eternal equality is unconditionally not to make the slightest distinction, unqualifiedly not to make the slightest distinction. The essential Christian is itself too weighty, in its movements too earnest to scurry about, dancing, in the frivolity of such facile talk about the higher, highest, and the supremely highest. Works of Love