In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.

Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you GET for it, but what you BECOME for it.

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to suffer the rest of your 40 years doing the same.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Evil draws men together.

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

Unconfusion submits its confusion to proof; it's not a Herod's oath that cannot change.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?