Caution is the lower story of prudence.
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Man is a tool-using animal.
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.