Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20 countries, and his fellow world leaders will do anything to take home a touch of that reflected popularity.
