Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt..

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought..

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, ….

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, t….

A sharp spear needs no polish..

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and natural….

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly..

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money..

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten..