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

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!

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

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

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.