There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

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

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.