Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
You are alone with everything you love.