You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The lemonade is weak, like your soul.

Speech is always bolder than action.