I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?