History is a novel for which the people is the author.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

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

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.