The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.