He is bigger than his message." "I suppose he stands for a great deal ?" "A man stands only for what he is, not for an inch more, not for an inch less.

The trouble with all the leaders we've had in the past was that their thought outstripped their characters.

They believed more than they were and they broke down under it.

I'm an old man now.

I've watched them come and go." "You think that Vetch is a great leader ?" "I think he is a great leader, but I don't mean that I think he will ever lead us anywhere." "You feel that he is losing his grip on the crowd ?" Up from Main Street the workers were pouring out of the factories; and while they moved in a dark stream through the light and shadow on the pavement, the faces flowed past Stephen with a pallid intensity which made him think of dead flowers drifting on a river.