I value not them or thee. The Laws of Nature will have themselves fulfilled. That is a thing certain to me. Chelsea Hospitals, pensions, promotions, rigorous lasting covenant on the one side and on the other, are indispensable even for a hired fighter. Man lives not otherwise, nor can live contented, anywhere or anywhen.
Isolation is the sum-total of wretchedness to man.
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you. Without father, without child, without brother. Even these, if you count only these, will not long be left. Honour to you in your kind. The future Epic of the World rests not with those that are near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life.