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

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.