Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.