He who plots revenge must dig two graves. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Too little payment for a crime, too much for an accident.

Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it.

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.