Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.