The great soul of this world is just.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.