A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.