Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love.

The longest way round is the shortest way home

I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.