'"...When I hear a sermon I feel an inclination always to say, 'My dear fellow, can't you put your case better?' I want good stuff about Divine and human nature - not this vagueness and platitude. Why don't they tell one something about the optimism of God, even before the spectacle of man's weakness? But, instead, we are told to moan about this vale of tears; we are promised chastisements, disappointments, woes, persecution. A philosophy of suffering makes men strong, but a philosophy of despair is bound to make a generation of pleasure-seekers."'
from Robert Orange by John Oliver Hobbes (Chapter XVI)
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