The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
Robert Ludlum
Archives For November 30, 1999
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
Stephen E. Ambrose.
Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don’t in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel (via reichsmarschall)
吾士无余财，非恶货也。无余命，非恶寿也。(If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.)
Sun Tzu, 孙子兵法 Sunzi Bingfa (The Art of War)
‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them–I look upon good novels–as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.
Patrick O’Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ’s words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism – for that is what the words ‘one flesh’ would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact – just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, fix men’s affections on the future ─ on the very core of temporality. Hence nearly all vices are rooted in the future. Gratitude looks to the past, and love to the present; fear, avarice, and ambition look ahead.
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
재산은 인생의 곤경에서 사람의 마음을 안심시켜 주기 위해 있는 것이지만, 인생은 재산을 모으기 위한 목적으로 있는 것이 아니다. (Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.)
한국 속담, Korean Proverb
God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.
C.S. Lewis
Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 