Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.