The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.