It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

To make something you have to be something.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.