Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.

Cowardly dogs bark loudest.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: "However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you."

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.