If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.