Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.