We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
Character is perfectly educated will.
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.