The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this for a truth: the thing thou seekest is already here, "here or nowhere," couldst thou only see.
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.