Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours of learning how to be to do to do without and to depart.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.