Come, weave tapestries for my feet that I may tread in silk and purple; dance before me that I may be glad, and sing sweetly to me that I may slumber.

So shall I live in joy and die in honor." Rather than such an honorable death, it were better that the day perish wherein such strength was born.

Rather let the great mind become also the great heart, and stretch out his scepter over the heads of the common people that stoop to its waving.

"Let me help you subdue the obstacle that baffled our fathers, and put away the plagues that consume our children.

Let us together water these dry places; plow these desert moons; carry this food to those who are in hunger; carry this light to those who are in darkness; carry this life to those who are in death." Superiority is to make erring men unerring and slow minds swift.