These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone. – Edmond Manning, King Perry

The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit! – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, translated from French by Isabel F.