Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

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.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

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

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.