In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

We are free, but no to be evil

To change masters is not to be free.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.