Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

Love works miracles in stillness.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

No one is polite to writers.

Maybe I'm the only footballer who isn't interested in cars. My Lancia Y gets me around.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbours; and they borrow each other's sugar. You don't get there without the other.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.