What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

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

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 nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

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

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