A corporation prefers to offer a job to a man who already has one To obtain entry into paradise, in terms of employment, you should be in a full state of grace.

I felt I was getting as near to paradise on this earth as any man could ever get,

A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms