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

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

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

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

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

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.