"Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so."
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.... all mortal greatness is but disease."
― Melville, Moby-Dick

"Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim."
― Clement Attlee

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
― Friedrich Nietzsche