What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.