“It was true. Men died and civilization died, but before they died they lived. It was not altogether futile.”

“We have the power of memory. We have the memory of order, and we still have voices. When memory dies, civilization dies.”

“A death-blow is a life-blow to some
Who, till they died, did not alive become;
Who, had they lived, had died, but when
They died, vitality begun.”

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”

“So the men did, and they died.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”

“Everybody dies, but not everybody lives.”

“Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world.”