The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

I am at one with my duality.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.