Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!