Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Integrity has no need of rules.