In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.