Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused