Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.