Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.