Protection is not a principle but an expedient
A person's fate is their own temper.
The expected always happens
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.