"That is a good name," they said; "we will give it to a virtue of our own creation."
So they gave it to Revenge.
The sea-bird speeding from the realm of night
Dashes to death against the beacon-light.
Learn from its evil fate, ambitious soul,
The ministry of light is guide, not goal.
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.
"O dreadful Death, why veilest thou thy face?"
"To spare me thine impetuous embrace."
He who knows himself great accepts the truth in reverent silence, but he who only believes himself great has embraced a noisy faith.
Life is a little plot of light. We enter, clasp a hand or two, and go our several ways back into the darkness. The mystery is infinitely pathetic and picturesque.
Cheerfulness is the religion of the little. The low hills are a-smirk with flowers and greenery; the dominating peaks, austere and desolate, holding a prophecy of doom.
It is not to our credit that women like best the men who are not as other men, nor to theirs that they are not particular as to the nature of the difference.