Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

The mills of God grind slowly.

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

A history that should pursue all the subtle threads from end to end might be eminently valuable, but not as a tribute to peace and conciliation.