We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

He stared dully at the desolate, cold road and the pale, dead night. Nothing was colder or more dead than his heart. He had loved an angel and now he despised a woman.