“Timber and relationships are fragile. All it takes is one spark to destroy either of them.”
“Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”
“[M]an's power, and its way of operation, [is] muchwhat the same in the material and intellectual world. For the materials in both being such as he has no power over, either to make or destroy, all that man can do, is either to unite them together, or to set them by one another, or wholly separate them.”
“..what we take to heart will either edify or destroy us.”
“Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.”
“All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.”