"Duty measures the distance between the animal and the divine."

"The proposition "I am the centre" need never be uttered. It is the assumption upon which all certainty and all doubt …"

"See your enemies content and your lovers melancholy."

"No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our…"

"When shields become crutches, and swords become canes, some hearts are put to rout. When wives become plunder, and fo…"

"Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance."

"All men are greater than dead men."

"One can look into the future, or one can look at the future. The latter is by far the more instructive."

"Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human."

"Ignorance is Trust."