“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”

“No man can come into a British Court of justice to seek the assistance of the law who founds his claim upon a contravention of the British laws.”

“She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

“Claiming that a holy book’s claims are undeniable because the book itself claims them to be is convincing only to the convinced.”

“Relying upon facts is claiming that you “know it all”, while a genius must go beyond these facts and prove them on his own.”

“The names Christ and Buddha are just common names, and anyone can easily claim them.”

“The deep structure that expresses the meaning is common to all languages, so it is claimed, being a simple reflection of the forms of thought.”

“Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do. God knows particulars as their Creator whereas humans know them as a privileged creations of God might know them.”

“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”

“There is no act more moral between men than that of rule and obedience. Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is! God's law is in that, I say, however the Parchment-laws may run: there is a Divine Right or else a Diabolic Wrong at the heart of every claim that one man makes upon another.”