“It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may...”

― John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women

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“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

“Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonised as in that hour left my lips; for...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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