The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.