Edwin

“To face that savage mountain of onrushing ferocity, to stand unshaken before the hideous fangs that he knew were bared in slavering blood-thirstiness, though he could not see them, required nerves of steel; but of such were the nerves of Carthoris of Helium.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maid of Mars

“When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
― W.B. Yeats

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

“When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel