’Tis lamentable to see goodness punished thus
For lack of a little wisdom. Folly brings remorse,
And again remorse folly: they tread the circle; and he
Would mend one fault by another, and on himself revenge
The wrong he has done his son. And that wrong too was not
A real unkindness: no: mere want of common sense;
It’s what I am always saying,—that is evil. To quote
From the very profoundest of authors, my favourite Sophocles,
Wisdom is far away the chiefest of happiness.
Of course a man may be happy, although he has lost his son,