Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
A healthy nature needs no God or immortality
It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.