Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.