Own Quotes

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

The stones of my river are as soft as a pillow.

Is not this house (the Tower of London) as nigh heaven as my own?

It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can’t even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what […]

A god who created man “after his own image”, and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited to him.

They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.