Memory feeds imagination.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.