Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
asleep to rummage in their minds
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.