Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.