A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it.

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.