We live ruins amid ruins.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Postpone not your life.