Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Love is the only future God offers.

A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.