As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.