Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Our ancestors wholeheartedly sacrificed their lives to fight against tyranny, and we are allowing that very same tyranny to exist! Let us open our eyes!

If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure