Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.
Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.