“Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation.”

“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.”

“Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”

“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”

“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”

“The spirit of our age is Democracy. All for the people, and all by the people. Nothing about the people without the people… My nation will rise, called to resurrection by the eternal principles of the law of nature and of nature’s God. It will not lie in the grave longer than the holy number three, and will require your magnanimity by becoming the corner-stone of national independence on the European Continent.”

“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”

“If christian nations therefore were nations of christians, all war would be impossible and unknown among them.”

“A soul of water a soul of stone.
A soul by name a soul unknown.
The hours unmake our flesh our bone.
The Soul is all and all alone!”

“I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all.”