Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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.
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.