War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.