It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.