In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.