How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.
It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.
Yet, in these autumn days when Nature expires, Here, in these veiled scenes, I find more attractions; It is a friend's sad goodbye; it is the last smile From lips that death is going to close forever!
Let us enjoy the fugitive hour. Man has no harbor, time has no shore; it rushes on, and carries us with it.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Mystery hovers over all things here below.
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.