Post 1.4

This is, as far as I can see, the only time I'll be posting twice in one day. I am not sure that justice is balance, but it's a good place to start looking for it.

1. The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
2. My friend, if this man had been guilty of the worst murder that can be conceived of, I might, perhaps, have pardoned him. You know the weakness of my nature — always open to the appeals of repentance or of grief; and with such a touching letter and such recommendations, I could not resist. But any man who would go to Africa and snatch from a mother her children to sell them into interminable bondage, merely for the sake of pecuniary gain, shall never receive pardon from me.
3. As much as people would like to believe otherwise, love incorporates more than just the spirit. People believe the outward appearance to be an accurate reflection of what's inside. Love isn't really blind...just selectively nearsighted.
4. Whatever your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you mine are still greater.
5. Ever since I served as an infantryman in the first World War, I have had a great dislike of those who, themselves in ease and safety, issue exhortations to men in the front lines. As a result, I have a great reluctance to say much about temptations to which I myself am not exposed. No man, I suppose, is tempted to every sin.

Discuss...again.