There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.