It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.