Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

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

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.