Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.