“Be a believer; abhor to be king, politician, statesman.  Make no compromise with error; do not contaminate yourself with diplomacy, make no compact with fear, with expediency, with the false doctrines of a legality, which is merely a falsehood invented when faith failed.  Take no counsel except from God, from the inspirations of your own heart, and from the imperious necessity of rebuilding a temple to truth, to justice, to faith.  Self-collected, in enthusiasm of love for humanity, and apart from every human regard, ask of God that he will teach you the way; then enter upon it, with the faith of a conqueror on your brow, with the irrevocable decision of the martyr in your heart; look neither to the right hand nor the left, but straight before you, and up to heaven.  Of every object that meets you on the way, ask of yourself:  ’Is this just or unjust, true or false, law of man or law of God?’ Proclaim aloud the result of your examination, and act accordingly.  Do not say to yourself:  ’If I speak and work in such a way, the princes of the earth will disagree; the ambassadors will present notes and protests!’ What are the quarrels of selfishness in princes, or their notes, before a syllable of the eternal Evangelists of God?  They have had importance till now, because, though phantoms, they had nothing to oppose them but phantoms; oppose to them the reality of a man who sees the Divine view, unknown to them, of human affairs, of an immortal soul conscious of a high mission, and these will vanish before you as vapors accumulated in darkness before the sun which rises in the east.  Do not let yourself be affrighted by intrigues; the creature who fulfils a duty belongs not to men, but to God.  God will protect you; God will spread around you such a halo of love, that neither the perfidy of men irreparably lost, nor the suggestions of hell, can break through it.  Give to the world a spectacle new, unique:  you will have results new, not to be foreseen by human calculation.  Announce an era; declare that Humanity is sacred, and a daughter of God; that all who violate her rights to progress, to association, are on the way of error; that in God is the source of every government; that those who are best by intellect and heart, by genius and virtue, must be the guides of the people.  Bless those who suffer and combat; blame, reprove, those who cause suffering, without regard to the name they bear, the rank that invests them.  The people will adore in you the best interpreter of the Divine design, and your conscience will give you rest, strength, and ineffable comfort.

“Unify Italy, your country.  For this you have no need to work, but to bless Him who works through you and in your name.  Gather round you those who best represent the national party.  Do not beg alliances with princes.  Continue to seek the alliance of our own people; say, ’The unity of Italy ought to be a fact of the nineteenth century,’ and it will suffice; we shall work for you.  Leave