“These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?”

“...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach—nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach—something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work...”

“إن الدين هو كدح من أجل تصور مالايمكن تصوره,وقول مالايمكن التعبير عنه,إنه التوق إلى الانهائى”

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

“I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.”

“the victor belongs to the spoils”

“She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.”