Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.