What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

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

Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?

The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.