When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts.

Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

The English peace is the peace of the grave.

Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.