„Loke who that is most vertuous alway,Prive and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he can,And take him for the gretest gentilman.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer
„A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
„The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
„The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost. He's always off somewhere when I need him most.“
— Bob Dylan
„Fie on possession,But if a man be vertuous withal.“
— Geoffrey Chaucer