“Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath.”

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn’t, then he is not God and we need not worry.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

I’m still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

One may be humble out of pride.