By her shining and her power he knew her.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Tell a man what he may not sing and he is still half free; even all free, if he never wanted to sing it. But tell him what he must sing, take up his time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret -- there, I have seen is slavery.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

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

It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.