Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.
H. Rider HaggardThe great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late
H. Rider HaggardTruly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
H. Rider HaggardMan's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you can polish it highly, you can even flatten it a little on one side, whereby you will make it bulge out the other, but you will NEVER, while the world endures and man is man, increase its total circumference.
H. Rider Haggard