Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.