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

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

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.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Longing performs all things

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.