To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.