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

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories.

The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.

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

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

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.