Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.