Danh ngôn của Gilbert Parker (Sứ mệnh: 7)

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
For when a child is born the mother also is born again.
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.