Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. |
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later and then you still have to decide what to do. |
Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. All my life the god of the Mountain has been wooing me. Oh, look up once at least before the end and wish me joy. I am going to my lover. Do you not see now? |
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers "Please will you do the job for me." |
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. |
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. |
Enemy-occupied territory is what the world is. |
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. |
Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory. |
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. |
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. |
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. |
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. |
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. |
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods |