Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.