Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The will of man is his happiness.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.