“A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.”

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

“Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, “A life you love.”

“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”