St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.—Quarles: Esther.
Corporations have no souls.
A corporation aggregate of many is invisible, immortal, and vests only in intendment and consideration of the law. They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls, neither can they appear in person, but by attorney.—Coke’s Reports, vol. x. p. 32.
Quem Deus vult perdere prius dementat.
Euripides: Fragments.
For those whom God to ruin has designed,
He fits for fate and first destroys their mind.
Dryden: Hind and Panther.