We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."