There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.