“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”

“In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well!”

“True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.”

“All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality. ”

“This above all: to thine self be true.”

“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.”