But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.