Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
The will of man is his happiness.
O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!
Will it, and set to work briskly.
In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude. You...
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes to close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in -at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolat...
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.