Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.