Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just read more

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: read more

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a read more

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad read more

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.