Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Violence does even justice unjustly.
No pressure, no diamonds.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.