When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

A library implies an act of faith.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?