“The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.”

“There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.”

“Without work men are utterly undone.”

“You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.”

“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”

“Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.”

“I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful.""Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.”