He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.