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.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.