Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Why can I not fight for my country too?

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

One can learn from what is not said.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.