Art will always be art.
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
One errs as long as one strives.