Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

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

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Art is the right hand of Nature.