“There was, between his conceptions and mine, despite the difference between our native countries, a surprising kinship, no doubt attributable to a certain likeness in the moral atmosphere in which we were both raised by our families.”

When you seek truth with another soul, let the ground beneath your feet be the same honest earth that shaped your earliest years. Do not fear the distance between nations if the love for light binds you together; ask yourself now what virtue you will carry into the work before the sun sets.