Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.