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.
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.
True friends share everything, except the past before they met.
You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.