"Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.”

“When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.”

“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .”

“I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.”

“The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.”

“For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.”

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”