God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Hell is not to love anymore.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.