Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

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.