I do not understand; I pause; I examine.
What a man hates, he takes seriously.
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.
It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents