The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom...
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.