There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.