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

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.