Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.