two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.