though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.