... if you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

It only needed two or three such defeats in succession for the backbone of a country to be put out of joint forever and for a thousand-year-old nation to be utterly destroyed.

... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ...

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Still, everybody wants to eat.

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.