When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.