If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.