No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.