Humanity is a comic role.
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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.
Where are we really going? Always home.