Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
The man that makes a character, makes foes.
Every choice you make has an end result.
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
