The Mighty Pen

Unsweetened Black Coffee Words for the Coming Storm

Brewed from my personal collection of maxims, thoughts, verse, and sentiments.

Voltaire

I fear in this world one must be a hammer or an anvil.

Arthur Shopenhauer

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-semitism of the businessman.

George Elliot

Necessity does the work of courage.

Emily Dickinson

After great pain a formal feeling comes —

The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs —

The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’

And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

Friedrich Rückert

I am lost to the world

with which I used to waste so much time,

It has heard nothing from me for so long