There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have must be paid heavily for their acquiring.  They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man’s life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Life eventually breaks everyone;  after,  some are stronger in the broken places.
E.H.

…Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs…