“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”

“Do we say to the wind, do you wish not to blow? Do we say to the thunder, would you rather be silent? No. We never think of these things.”

“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.”

“He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.”

“And just holding her hand would be good. Can you understand that? Do you know that holding someone's hand can be `the' thing? Such a thing that your hands move while not moving. You can remember a thing like that, rather than any other thing about a night, all your life. Just holding hands can mean more, I believe it. When everything is repeated, and over, and familiar, it's the first things rather than the last that count.”