Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.