“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

“Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.”

“Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!”

“No mother should outlive her children, and no captain should outlive his ship.”

“He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.”

“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions - does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”

“The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.”