The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. ~Joseph MazziniOf an European Literature, from the Antologia of Florence, Nos 7, 8, November and December 1829; quoted in Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini, vol. ii, 1890; TPVgb reprinted