Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.