All heiresses are beautiful.
We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.
Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.
History is written by those who hang heroes.
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from happening. Yet I believe that even if poetry did not do this, it would be vital to our survival.
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated; and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.