It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.