Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.