“ My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee. ”
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
~ Walter Scott
I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
