“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ”

“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle”

“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer”