We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.