“In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.”

“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”

“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.”

“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.”

“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”

“But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.”

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.”