Moreover, when I see that you, who love your country, you, whose father sleeps beneath these quiet waters, you, who have seen yourself attacked, insulted, and persecuted, hold such opinions in spite of all these things, and in spite of your knowledge, I begin to doubt my own convictions and to admit the possibility that the people may be mistaken.

I'll have to tell those unfortunates who have put their trust in men that they must place it in God and their own strength.

Again I thank you--tell me where I shall take you." "Elias, your bitter words touch my heart and make me also doubt.

What do you want?
I was not brought up among the people, so I am perhaps ignorant of their needs.

I spent my childhood in the Jesuit college, I grew up in Europe, I have been molded by books, learning only what men have been able to bring to light.