A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.