Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.