“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”

“The dead are friends whom death is powerless to take from us. Great writers are immortal companions who can embellish our old age as they enchanted our young days. Music, too, is an extraordinarily faithful friend. To those of us who have lost our faith in human nature, it offers refuge in other pleasant worlds.”

“The it-rich are those who have chosen to face their fears rather than live with regrets.”

“The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.”

“It is not easy to write of my good friend, John Muir. The impression of his personality was so strong on those who knew him that all words seem cheap beside it. Those who never knew him can never, through any word of ours, be brought to realize what they have missed. … He had a quaint, crisp way of talking, his literary style in fact, and none of the nature lovers, the men who know how to feel in the presence of great things and beautiful, have expressed their craft better than he.”

“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.”

“When once you have plunged into the strife for power, it is the fear of those who are seeking for power over you that so easily persuades to all the great crimes.”

“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”

“Those who do not fear the sword they wield have no right to wield a sword at all.
~Shuhei Hisagi”

“The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever…Those who have entered it honorably, and no man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.”