If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

True is it that we have seen better days.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.