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the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

Here lies David Elginbrod Have mercy on my soul, dear God, As I would ye if I were God And ye were David Elginbrod.

Justice demands your punishment, because justice demands, and will have, the destruction of sin.

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

Thus the pride, which is of man, mingled with the love, which is of God, and Polluted it.

We have neither humility enough to be faithful, nor faith enough to be humble.

Therefore I have been training him for a work that must soon be done. I was near losing him, and had to send my pigeon. Had he not shot it, that would have been better; but he repented, and that shall be as good in the end.

Self-love is the foulest of all foul feeders, and will defile that it may devour.

Some human faults are military virtues, like stupidity, and arrogance, and narrow-mindedness.

man when I see one – and he was the best.7

I'm an author. You want me to describe how creepy this is Harding, I've got you covered.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

Do you remember writing in your diary, he said, that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of no creature except himself.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

I was said of these bombs (referring to FAI bombs) that they were 'impartial'; they killed then man they were thrown at and the man who threw them.

I have known numbers of bourgeois Socialists. I have listened by the hour to their tirades against their own class, and yet never, not even once, have I met one who had picked up proletarian table manners. Yet after all why not? Why should a man who thinks all virtue resides in the proletariat still take such pains to drink his soup silently? It can only be because in his heart he feels that proletarian manners are disgusting.

The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, than a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.

All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty.

Listen, the more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?" "Yes, perfectly." "I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones." "Well then, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the bones.

I dreamt-' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream itself, and there was a memory connected with it that had swum into his mind in the few seconds after waking.

Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.