Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.
Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.