And you?
How long is it now since you last showed your father a cheerful countenance ?" "I cannot be a hypocrite." "Nor need you, but you must love.

Certainly it is not by what his hand does but by what his heart cheerfully offers, and by what he forces himself to give up that a man proves his love." "And is it no sacrifice that I waste all my youth here ?" asked the boy.
Paulus stepped back from him a little way, shook his matted head, and said, "Is that it?
You are thinking of Alexandria! Ay! no doubt life runs away much quicker there than on our solitary mountain.

You do not fancy the tawny shepherd girl, but perhaps some pretty pink and white Greek maiden down there has looked into your eyes ?" "Let me alone about the women," answered Hermas, with genuine annoyance.
"There are other things to look at there." The youth's eyes sparkled as he spoke, and Paulus asked, not without interest, "Indeed ?" "You know Alexandria better than I," answered Hermas evasively.

"You were born there, and they say you had been a rich young man." "Do they say so ?" said Paulus.

"Perhaps they are right; but you must know that I am glad that nothing any longer belongs to me of all the vanities that I possessed, and I thank my Saviour that I can now turn my back on the turmoil of men.