Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it / but there is.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.