How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.