Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.