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

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

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.

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

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.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.