To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.