An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.

Give the american people a good cause, and there’s nothing they can’t lick.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

In peace one is despoiled by the mercenaries, in war by one's enemies.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.