The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.