The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
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