Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

History should be written as philosophy.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

I began to encounter real-life stories of dogs protecting their wounded or dying or dead handler... or dogs refusing to leave the bodies of the people they were bonded to, sitting in cemeteries for days or sometimes weeks. You find these stories endlessly.