Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The religion of humanity is love.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.