"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"One who says unpleasant things about others, will himself quickly become a target of their scandal."

"Good taste is always an asset."

"Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts."

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser."

"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."