. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.
There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.
To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.