"I perceive that, when an old garment is taken off, the new is not yet put on."

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and firing of the idea of the beautiful into us."