Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.