The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.