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

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.

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.