“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.”