Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

I love the majesty of human suffering.