The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Hillary Clinton's 506-page memoir has come out. So much of her personality shines through, that in the end, you, too, will want to sleep with an intern.

I'm not a horror fans as much as I'm a fan of thrillers.

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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.