As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Man is an imitative creature.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.