What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.