“ One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ”

“ Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ”

“ He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ”

“ Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ”

“ I'm religiously opposed to religion. ”

“ Wisdom is a sacred communion. ”

“ Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. ”

“ To love beauty is to see light. ”