A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.