Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Art will always be art.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.