Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

Character is a perfectly educated will.