"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"

"Simplify, simplify."

"If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I am surprised to find how soon I have forgotten them."

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?"

"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."