“The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.”

“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”

“Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.”

“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”

“England is safe, if true within itself.”

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“So loving to my mother,That he might not beteem the winds of heaven,Visit her face' too roughly.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

“. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.”

“I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.”

“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!”

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth”

“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,And with the other fling it at thy face.”