When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Hope is the joy of soul.

He knew there were no forevers and there was always a way out, yet he lost his way, lost his balance.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

There is no one else at all who is fighting ISIS on the ground, except for President al-Assad's army.