The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
——《大总统复参议会论国旗函》，1912年2月3日
"In the end, we are all just trying to find our place in the world, to make sense of the chaos around us."