The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.