When the idea first came into my mind, I tore at it as I would at a weed.

But we who have studied in the West have learnt certain great truths which our own philosophers have sometimes missed.
All that is best of life and of death our own prophets have taught us.
From them we have learnt fortitude and chastity: devotion to our country and singleness of purpose.

Over here, though, one has also learnt something.

Nobility is of the soul.

A Prince of the Shans must seek not for the body but for the spirit of the woman who shall be his mate.