“There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.”

“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.”

“There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.”

“He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not a man. He is still a little boy and wants the moon.”

“It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.”

“Doc tips his hat to dogs as he drives by and the dogs look up and smile at him.”

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”