Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindless wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.