It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.