Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Go back to the band, Egg. Please.” - Bex

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.