Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.
The first mark of valor is defence.
It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
We have to be even more Christocentric because of the influence of Islam today.
I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself.
Time has told me less than I need to know.