Classical Liberalism

Adherence to men is often disloyalty to principle.

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

Do not deny the immortality of the soul, God's wisdom, the value of life, the order of the universe, physical beauty, the love of the family, marriage, social institutions.

I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope, malice by good, complaints by duty, scepticism by faith, sophisms by cool equanimity, and pride by modesty

I have written of evil as Mickiewicz, Byron, Milton, Southey, A. de Musset, Baudelaire, and others have all done. Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. Thus it is always, after all, the good which is the subject, only the method is more philosophical and less naive than that of the old school...is that the evil? No, certainly not.