"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

"Conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title."

"Friends are thieves of time."

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

"The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all p…"