The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

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

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art