A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.