Books Are A Triviality. Life Alone Is

Pain Was Not Given Thee Merely To Be Miserable Under; Learn From It, Turn It To Account.

Clean Undeniable Right, Clear Undeniable Might: Either Of These Once Ascertained Puts An End To Battle. All Battle Is A Confused Experiment To Ascertain One And Both Of These.

The World Is A Thing That A Man Must Learn To Despise, And Even To Neglect, Before He Can Learn To Reverence It, And Work In It And For It.

Narrative Is Linear, But Action Has Breadth And Depth As Well As Height And Is Solid.

Rich As We Are In Biography, A Well-written Life Is Almost As Rare As A Well-spent One; And There Are Certainly Many More Men Whose History Deserves To Be Recorded Than Persons Willing And Able To Record It.