God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Where words cease, there music begins.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems.