Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.

Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like mere highway robbery.

Doubtless there are other roads.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.