A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.
All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead. . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
An old sergeant said, if you want to get to France in a hurry, then join the ambulance service, the French are big for ambulance service.
Being on Twitter is like having a fern.
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.