A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.