In art, the best is good enough.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

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.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

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

It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.