A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.