💬 Quotes

"A king may rule the land, but it is the warrior who conquers the hearts of men."

"To lose one's faith in humanity is to lose one's faith in the future."

"In the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, a clear head and a steady sword are a man's best friends."

"There are no hopeless situations, only men who have grown hopeless about them."

"Love knows no bounds of race, of planet, or of death itself."

"Power unchecked by justice is tyranny, and tyranny is the deadliest enemy of Barsoom."

"London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather."

"The one great principle of the English law is to make business for itself."

"The parties to the cause if they had known what was to come before it was begun, never could have endured it; if they had known what it was during a course of years, would not have known the reason for it."

"Suffering is any suffering from which you are able to eliminate yourself."

"It is best to begin with so much caution and openness that it's impossible for any one to take you unawares."

"Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and wrong reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with heavenly compassion in your hearts and dying thus around us every day."

"A woman's life is made up of such tiny details—little acts of self-abnegation that no one ever counts or remembers, save the angels and God."

"There are some griefs that dwarf all others, and leave the heart too numb for tears."

"It is the commonplace days, the grey, uneventful hours, that test the real strength and metal of our souls."

"Youth is ever impatient of the slow grinding of the mills of God; it would fain leap to the harvest without the weariness of the sowing."

"Trust is like a fragile porcelain vessel; once cracked by deceit, it may be mended, but the scar remains forever visible to those who look closely."

"True nobility does not consist in high-sounding titles or broad acres, but in a steadfast adherence to duty when the path is lonely and obscure."

"The world is full of emperors and Napoleons, but they don't last. The people who have the real power are the ones who make you love them."

"Every true artist has to go through a period of isolation, of being driven back upon themselves, to find their own voice."