How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

The history of a man is in his character.

As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

On every mountain height is rest.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.