All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.