How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.