White… is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. – Plato