Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.