Freedom can occur only through education.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.