“Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.”

“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”