We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

In a true tragedy, both parties must be right.