Stern is the visage of necessity.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

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

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.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.