Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions