Good and evil ! good and evil ! ye are mingled inextricably in the web of our being ; and who may unthread the darker yarn ? - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is so sad — So very lonely — to be the sole one
In whom there is a sign of change!

But the knowledge of the library is not that of the world; a youth of solitude is bad preparation for a manhood of action; from the earliest age we need to mingle with our kind; the child corrects and instructs the child more than their masters; our equals are the tools wherewith experience works out its lessons; and the play-ground, with its rival interests, its injustices, its necessity for the ready wit and the curbed temper is both miniature and prophesy of the world, which will but bring back the old struggles only with a sterner aspect, and the same successes, but with more than half their enjoyment departed.

The timid temper lives in perpetual terror, the nobler one braces itself to endure when ever the appointed time shall come.