"We make men without chests and expect..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.”

“Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.”

“Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.”

“Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available”

“No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.”

“London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.”

“One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.”