The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Law, without force, is impotent.
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.