Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.

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.

Stern is the visage of necessity.