Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

Sing it not in mournful numbers.

We are our own aptest deceiver.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.