This man has the power of thought, that one imagination and style, still another industrial and commercial capacity.

By our very nature and education, we possess only special aptitudes which are limited and confined, and which become consequently more necessary as they gain in depth and strength.
Capacities are to each other as functions and persons; who would dare to classify them in ranks?
The finest genius is, by the laws of his existence and development, the most dependent upon the society which creates him.

Who would dare to make a god of the glorious child?
"It is not strength which makes the man," said a Hercules of the market-place to the admiring crowd; "it is character." That man, who had only his muscles, held force in contempt.

The lesson is a good one, proletaires; we should profit by it.

It is not talent (which is also a force), it is not knowledge, it is not beauty which makes the man.