Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

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