True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.