“Rules of grammar can not give us a mastery of language, rules of rhetoric can not make us eloquent, rules of conduct can not make us good.”

“He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.”

“There are no rules but uniformity can make it seem as though there are rules.”

“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.”

“For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules — it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either.”

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”

“Any fool can make a rule
And every fool will mind it.”

“Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

“But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.”

“Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.”