Revenge is empty. It cannot bring back the dead. - Fritz Leiber

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

“Dreams mean nothing,” he said coldly. “They are unreal.”
“They’re as real as anything else,” she shot back at him. “And they merely mean conscience.”

They sat in small parties with a truculent quietness that sneered at and challenged the frantic hustle of the times and the belief that the hustle was leading anywhere.