it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. Mansfield Park
For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth. The Karamazov Brothers
It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. The Enchiridion
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