She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, would we be guilty if we prevented them from doing us evil?

I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!