Character: Mr. Ramsey

Will fame last long? Glory can last two thousand years. But what is two thousand years? If you look from the mountain peak to the deserts of centuries? These stones that you kick with your foot are more durable than Shakespeare.

Whether you like it or not, there is an ancient, most obvious difference between two classes of people: on the one hand, tireless, over-stubborn, striding in order through the entire alphabet and consolidating it from beginning to end, and on the other, gifted, inspired, swallowing all the letters at once - geniuses.

The qualities in which the ship's crew would survive in the raging sea on six crackers and a flask of water are endurance, prudence, justice, devotion, dexterity.

Life is a serious thing; the facts are inexorable; and the path to that promised land, where the most radiant dreams go out and fragile boats perish in the darkness, this path first of all requires courage, love of truth, endurance.

Do not be never in the world of Shakespeare, he asked himself, how many changed present world? Does the progress of civilization from great people? Does the fate of the average man since the days of the pharaohs? Whether the fate of the average person's standard by which is measured the level of civilization?