When we take our advantage unrelentingly, then we make war.
Those that have the underhand in any fighting, I have observed, are ever anxious to persuade themselves they were betrayed.
There are double words for everything: the word that swells, the word that belittles.
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is – nor yet so good a Christian.
Let anyone speak long enough, he will get believers.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken.
I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of earshot, or to have no common tongue.
Hatred betrayed is hatred impotent.