Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

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

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.