I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
A sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature.
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.
For with G. D. , to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American. " America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.
But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh vest and a pair of silk pajama pants. He regarded Clary with mild interest, puffing gently on a fantastically large pipe as he did so. Though he looked nothing at all like a Viking, he was instantly and totally familiar. Magnus Bane
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.