Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.