If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.