When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.