The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.
One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.