Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
Oh, what company good poets are!
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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.