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

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.

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

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.