Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men’s speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren’t.
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon.
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality – counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.