Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.