Two soldiers and a villain are enough to blow up the rights of the citizens.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Let no one say that taking action is hard. Action is aided by courage, by the moment, by impulse, and the hardest thing in the world is making a decision.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.