Sylla was the first of victors; but our own The sagest of usurpers, Cromwell; he Too swept off the senates while he hewed the throne Down to a block - immortal rebel! See What crimes it costs to be a moment free And famous through all ages.

Cromwell was a man in whom ambition had not wholly suppressed, but only suspended, the sentiments of religion.

I confess I have an interest in this Mr. Cromwell; and indeed, if truth must be said, in him alone. The rest are historical, dead to me; but he is epic, still …

A devotee of law, he was forced to be often lawless; a civilian to the core, he had to maintain himself by the sword; with a passion to construct, his task was…

The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for gene…

To think for oneself is not only, as Gide said, counterrevolutionary but also apostasy and, at certain times, treason.

That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. This state ca…