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

Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.