“There is no error more common than that of thinking that those who are the causes or occasions of great tragedies share in the feelings suitable to the tragic mood: no error more fatal than expecting it of them. The martyr in his 'shirt of flame' may be looking on the face of God, but to him who is piling the faggots or loosening the logs for the blast the whole scene is no more than the slaying of an ox is to the butcher, or the felling of a tree to the charcoal burner in the forest, or the fall of a flower to one who is mowing down the grass with a scythe. Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them.”

“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”

“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”

“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

“And the wild regrets and the bloody seatsNone knew so well as IFor he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one, must die.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”