Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Sunsets in themselves are generally superior to sunrises; but with the sunset we appreciate images drawn from departed peace and faded glory.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society

I've never claimed to be civil, " he said with a soft growl, flashing his canines.

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.