“The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.”

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to value justice above everything--to do what is right not because someone ordains it, but because the heart which is the seat of truth decrees it so.”

“I fell asleep and dreamed that life was only Happiness.I woke and discovered that life was Duty.I did my Duty and discovered that life was Happiness.”

“If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.”

“Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness.How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.”