In this era of world wars, in this atomic age, values have changed. We have learned that we are guests of existence, travelers between two stations. We must discover security within ourselves.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.