Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
Great men always have dogs.
In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.