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?

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

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

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

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

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.