What a glorious creature must he have been in the day of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in ruin. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species.

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.