Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.