Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.