What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.