My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

Ere systemed suns were globed and lit The slaughters of the race were writ.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Aggressive Fancy working spells Upon a mind o'erwrought.

Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

It was not a very white jacket, but white enough, in all conscience, as the sequel will show. The way I came by it was this...