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.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

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