He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity like a star.
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Do not judge from mere appearances.
I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love.
And now, I’m going to sleep. I’ll see you in the morning, he said to Simon. “You,” he said to Jace, “well, I guess I’ll see you around. You’re the first Shadowhunter I’ve ever met. ” “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown. ” Kyle rolled his eyes and left, banging his bedroom door shut behind him.