An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

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.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.