We can never cease to be ourselves.

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

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.