Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!
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.
Freedom can occur only through education.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
In the case of the creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in pell-mell, and only then does it review and inspect the multitude.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...
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
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...
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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.
The will of man is his happiness.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.