All human rules are more or less idiotic.
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.