“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
“He won the war on the battlefield and lost it in a bedchamber, poor fool.”
“War is not won by victory.”
“Strange as it may seem—or perhaps it does not seem so strange—they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.”
“A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis victory.”