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.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.

Modest humility is beauty's crown.