The key to education is the experience of beauty.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

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.