A king asks another king: How many people do you govern? But if God speaks to a king, he asks: How many people are you helping? Even the dry leaves cry out when trodden on; why should not the trodden man cry out? It is better to give life than to take life. If you give life, you do what God does; if you take life, you do what Satan does. Some men are better than others, but there is no man so good as God and no one so bad as the devil. Some people are dressed in silk and satin, and others are dressed in rags. Very often that is the only difference between man and man. There is a great difference between a learned man and a good man. The learned man can do good, but the good man will do good. The learned man can build the world up, but can destroy it too; the good man can only build it up. A man's judgment lasts as long as a man's life, but God's judgment lasts as long as God. It is better to dress the soul in silk and the body in rags than the reverse. If life does not mean work, then life is worth nothing. Work and virtue are sisters, as well as idleness and vice. Work and prayer are two eyes on the same face. The man who works only, without praying, has one eye only; and the man who prays without working only has one eye too. The man who neither works nor prays has no eyes, and walks in darkness. Neither be boastful of life nor fearful of death. Death is conditioned by life, and life by death. You can kill me, but my son will live; you can kill my son, but my soul will live. The Kingdom of God is coming as quietly as the moonlight, and it will come fully when men learn not to live in convulsions and not to die in convulsions. There are only two nations upon the earth: that which weeps and that which laughs. Now I would like to indicate slightly what The English Political Interests in Serbia are. Little as she may seem, democratic Serbia is still the greatest moral factor in the big Slav world. She is admired by other subjugated Slavs because she succeeded without anybody's help in freeing herself. She is envied by all other Slavs, from near and from far, as well as from other neighbouring nations, because of her nearly perfect democracy. Serbia is the only democratic state among the four independent Slav states (Russia, Montenegro, Bulgaria). And just in this terrible war it became clear to all the world that Serbia was the only democratic state in the Near East. Turkey is governed by an oligarchy, Bulgaria by a German despot, Greece by a wilful king whose patriotism is overshadowed by his nepotism, Roumania is ruled more by the wish of the landlords (boyars) and court than by the wish of the people. I will say nothing about the very profanation of democracy in the dark realm of the Hapsburgs.