There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

Patriotism corrupts history.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.