There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.