Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.