Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.