He was not sure what idea he wished to express but the thought that a poetic moment had touched upon him took life within him like an infant hope. He… - James Joyce

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist, as Friday (the trusty slave who arrives on an unlucky day) is the symbol of the subject races. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence; the unconscious cruelty; the persistence; the slow yet efficient intelligence; the sexual apathy; the practical, well-balanced religiousness; the calculating taciturnity.