If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.