Jacob Stock

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see”
― A.A. Milne

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

Socrates taught us: 'Know thyself!”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

“War is far too crucial a part of human endeavor to leave it entirely in the hands of generals, law is far too critical a part of human endeavor to leave it entirely in the hands of lawyers, and education is far too important a human endeavor to leave it entirely in the hands of educators.
-MWN”
― Maynard Nordmoe, Mercy and Truth: 101 Musings of an Ancient Educator