Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

We have time enough if we but use it aright

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.