You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.