This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.