God Does Not Ask For

The Love Of Americans For Their Country Is Not An Indulgent, It Is An Exacting And Chastising Love; They Cannot Tolerate Its Defects.

Nothing Is More Vain Than To Seek To Unite Men By A Philosophic Minimum.

The Poet Knows Himself Only On The Condition That Things Resound In Him, And That In Him, At A Single Awakening, They And He Come Forth Together Out Of Sleep.

To Philosophize Man Must Put His Whole Soul Into Play, In Much The Same Manner That To Run He Must Use His Heart And Lungs.

There Is Nothing Man Desires More Than A Heroic Life: There Is Nothing Less Common To Men Than Heroism.